@[email protected] to Map [email protected] • 1 day agoHighway fonts in different countrieslemmy.mlimagemessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up1104arrow-down15cross-posted to: [email protected]typography[email protected]fonts
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish10•1 day agoDIN for Germany/Czechia. Distributed by Microsoft as Bahnschrift.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•1 day agoFound it one Wikipedia for Germany under DIN 1451 Mittelschrift. You can download and use it legally even under the OFL license for free.
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilink9•edit-21 day agoAhh a fellow Czech road nerd Edit: you’ll like this - this was the old pre-2001 font (I’ve forgotten the name tho)
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•1 day agoUniversal Grotesk. Still in use in Slovakia. What is your opinion on lowercase/uppercase and closest/farthest at the top?
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilink3•edit-222 hours agoAlso I don’t really like Grotesk as a transport typeface, it’s too bold+curvy…
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•21 hours agoThe kerning on the “Od” there feels too loose to me.
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilink2•edit-223 hours agoI personally prefer lowercase as it makes the names less uniform in shape therefore better recognisable. I don’t have an opinion on the second one though. Also btw I have a feeling the Slovaks now use the Austrian font
DIN for Germany/Czechia. Distributed by Microsoft as Bahnschrift.
Found it one Wikipedia for Germany under DIN 1451 Mittelschrift. You can download and use it legally even under the OFL license for free.
Ahh a fellow Czech road nerd
Edit: you’ll like this - this was the old pre-2001 font (I’ve forgotten the name tho)
Universal Grotesk. Still in use in Slovakia.
What is your opinion on lowercase/uppercase and closest/farthest at the top?
Also I don’t really like Grotesk as a transport typeface, it’s too bold+curvy…
The kerning on the “Od” there feels too loose to me.
What do u think about the British font?
I personally prefer lowercase as it makes the names less uniform in shape therefore better recognisable. I don’t have an opinion on the second one though. Also btw I have a feeling the Slovaks now use the Austrian font